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Pashman Stein Adds Genova Burns Bankruptcy Partner In NJ
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC brought on a partner in New Jersey from Genova Burns LLC specializing in bankruptcies, restructurings and state court insolvencies, the firm announced Thursday.
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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations
A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."
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Lucosky Brookman Expands Insurance Group In Pa.
Two Pennsylvania attorneys with more than 30 years of combined experience representing clients in healthcare liability and insurance matters have moved their practices recently to Lucosky Brookman LLP from Marshall Dennehey PC.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta
In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.
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Meet Attys Arguing Pet Med Company's Patent Liability Case
A Jenner & Block LLP lawyer who handles high-profile appellate matters and a Williams & Connolly LLP attorney who helped Perkins Coie LLP challenge a presidential order targeting the firm last year are set to argue an indemnification dispute over a patent case settlement in Delaware's Supreme Court next week.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Manatt Healthcare Duo In LA
Husch Blackwell LLP announced that a pair of Los Angeles-based commercial litigators from Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP have joined the firm as part of its focus on expanding its California healthcare capabilities.
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Court Bets On Prediction Markets Stir Insider Trading Fears
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi provide opportunities to make money on court-related wagers, raising concerns that judges, court employees or litigants could use nonpublic information to bet on the outcomes of cases or the judiciary's personnel moves.
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2nd Circ. Grapples With Arbitration Shield In Atty's Bias Suit
A Second Circuit panel closely examined Thursday whether a former Thompson Hine LLP partner's lawsuit falls within the scope of federal law nullifying arbitration agreements in cases of sexual harassment, with one judge signaling some skepticism that the statute applies.
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Hinshaw Adds Robinson & Cole's Antitrust Co-Chair In NY
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced on Thursday that the co-chair of Robinson & Cole LLP's antitrust and trade regulation team is joining its healthcare group in New York.
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Dechert Adds 4th McDermott Restructuring Partner In A Month
Dechert LLP has continued its hiring spree of former McDermott Will & Schulte attorneys, adding its fourth restructuring partner from the firm this month.
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Schouest Bamdas Adds Gordon Rees Maritime Pro In Houston
Schouest Bamdas Soshea & BenMaier has added a litigator in Houston with a focus on maritime law who came aboard from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Meet Biden's Attys Fighting DOJ Release Of Memoir Materials
Former President Joe Biden has selected Hecker Fink LLP lawyers well acquainted with politically charged litigation for his extraordinary new lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of orchestrating a congressional inquiry in order to divulge "highly personal" records to the Heritage Foundation.
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Google Seeks End To Antitrust Case From 'Serial Litigants'
Google slammed consumers who brought a suit claiming the tech giant owes them for illegally monopolizing the online search services market, saying they didn't show an antitrust injury and urging a San Francisco federal judge to rule in the company's favor without going to trial.
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PacifiCorp Link Should DQ Appeal Judge, Plaintiffs Say
Counsel for a class of Oregon property owners asked an appeals court Tuesday to disqualify the judge who authored a decision overturning classwide liability against PacifiCorp for wildfire damage, saying the judge's alleged work for the utility in prior private practice would cause a reasonable person to question her impartiality.
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NY Firms Lose Lead Role In Starbucks Shareholder Suit
A Washington federal judge struck an earlier order granting co-lead roles to two New York law firms in a consolidated shareholder action against Starbucks Corp., handing a win Wednesday to two plaintiffs who'd challenged the appointment and said their own counsel would be better suited for the job.
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Perkins Coie Docs At Issue In Omani Co.'s Malpractice Case
An Oman-based screw and nail manufacturer has urged a Washington state judge to force Perkins Coie LLP to hand over a trove of documents related to the firm's past work representing the Middle Eastern company in a U.S. Department of Commerce probe, saying more information is needed to assess the law firm's defenses against claims its mistakes cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Fla. Judge Strikes Ex-Chartwell Atty's Sanctions Motion
An attorney who claims Chartwell Law Offices LLP fired her over social media posts about Gaza won't win sanctions against the firm after a Florida federal judge on Wednesday struck her motion as unfounded and said she would consider monetary sanctions over hallucinated AI citations in the motion.
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11th Circ. Told YouTube Copyright Win Doesn't Merit Fees
A Spanish film production company has urged the Eleventh Circuit to uphold a Florida federal judge's refusal to award YouTube attorney fees after the video platform prevailed in a dispute over pirated movies, arguing that the unsuccessful copyright claims raised a novel legal issue and were brought in good faith.
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Ga. Atty Says State Bar Can't Use Immunity To Stop Bias Suit
A Georgia attorney urged a federal judge to keep her proposed class action alive, arguing that the State Bar of Georgia can't claim immunity from her suit because it has allegedly demonstrated a pattern of racial discrimination against her and others in attorney discipline cases.
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Obermayer Launches Statewide Appellate Practice Group
Philadelphia-based Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP has expanded its litigation resources by formally organizing its ongoing appellate services into a separate practice to support attorneys and clients with building cases on solid foundations.
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Florida Panel Says ADA Doesn't Entitle Pro Se Filer To Use AI
A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday sanctioned a pro se filer for using artificial intelligence to generate filings containing misleading arguments and false citations, banning him from making future filings with the court unless they are signed by a member of good standing with the Florida bar.
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Ex-DC Prosecutor Brings Victim Focus To Plaintiffs Shop
Longtime D.C. federal prosecutor Nicholas Miranda is part of a wave of attorneys who have left the federal government over the past year, but his career path looks different from many others. He now represents plaintiffs at Levin Law PA, a Miami-based firm that targets financial fraud and privacy violations, work he says continues his yearslong focus on victims.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Keller Rohrback's Gretchen Freeman Cappio
By the time Volkswagen was exposed for touting the low emissions of cars that secretly released nitrogen oxide pollutants up to 40 times the legal limit in the U.S., Keller Rohrback LLP's Gretchen Freeman Cappio knew she wasn't interested in defending corporate giants.
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California Litigator Elevated To Lead Lathrop GPM's LA Office
Lathrop GPM LLP announced this week that an experienced California-based litigation attorney who has been with the firm for nearly a decade has been named the new partner-in-charge of its Los Angeles office.
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Brownstein Hyatt Faces DQ Bid In Sports Betting Biz Fight
A sports-betting executive suing her former employer for defamation and contract breach is looking to oust the company's Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP attorneys, telling a Nevada federal judge that the firm's prior work for her creates a conflict.
Expert Analysis
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.